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06 September 2012

SEPT - PART 2: KNOW YOUR JURY RIGHTS

And here is part 2. Yes: the citations have been renumbered.

There
is another major item that the police, prosecutors and even a lot of

judges don't want you or anybody else to know about.The concept is
most commonly known as the "Fully Informed Jury” or

“Jury
Nullification”.

If
a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror
has accepted the exersize of absolute authority of a government employee
and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's
safegaurd of liberty.

George Bankroft -- History of the Constitution

"In
criminal cases juries remained the judges of both law and fact

for approximately fifty years after the Revolution. However, the

judges
in America, just as in England after the Revolution of 1688,

gradually asserted themselves increasingly through their

instructions on the law. We recognize, as appellants urge, the

undisputed
power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary

to the
law as given by the judge and contrary to the evidence."U.S.
v Moylan, 417 F.2d 1002,1006 (1969)1

The
fact is that, in complete opposition to what most cops and judges will

tell you, the
jury is the highest and final legal authority in America. 12

people can, no
matter what the facts, evidence and/or instructions from the

judge, acquit any defendant according to their conscience. No on can

challenge this decision and jurors cannot be punished in any way for

acquitting.

In
a nutshell: ”You
are NOT obligated to enforce a bad law! You do

NOT have to send
people to jail who you don't think deserve to go

there, regardless of
what the law says!2”

If
it wasn't for jury nullification, slavery would still be legal. So
would

burning witches. Prohibition would still be in force and you
could be fined for

driving on Sunday.

In
this great country of ours both houses of congress have to vote on
and

pass legislation. Then, if the president signs it, it becomes the
law of the

land.

The
police and courts enforce the law.

If
someone thinks that the new law violates the constitution, our
Supreme

Court will review it and either decide that it is ok, or they
may strike down

part or all of it.

Theoretically,
that's it. If you violate a law, you're punished with fines, jail

or
death.

Sometimes
though, a bad law will make it through all those check points

and
still be law. When that happens, there is still one more place where
a

law can be struck down. The Jury.

“William
Penn may have thought he had settled the matter. Arrested in 1670

for
preaching Quakerism, Penn was brought to trial. Despite Penn's

admitting the charge, four of the 12 jurors voted to acquit.The
judge sent the

four to jail "without meat, drink, fire and
tobacco" for failing to find Penn

guilty. On appeal, however,
the jurors' action was upheld and the right of

juries to judge both
the law and the facts -- to nullify the law if it chose --